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Show WILSON TAKES UP ' RUSSIAN PROBLEMS EFFORT8 TO DETERMINE DEFINITE DEFI-NITE POLICY FOR UNITED .STATES AND HER ALLIE8. Attitude to Be Adopted by Victorious-Nations Victorious-Nations Thought to Be One of the Most Serious Items. Wnshlngton. Tho ltusslan problem' nlreudy has been takcii up by I'rexi-.dent I'rexi-.dent Wilson with French statesmen,. It was learned here Tuesday, 'and tho determination of 11 dellnlte policy on which all the allied countries ami the United Stntes may agreu will hu nno of the first things undertnken nt the-preliminary the-preliminary meetings which are to precede tho pence conference. S itussln's plight uml the attitude to 1 bo adopted by the victorious associated nations Is recognized us ono of the-most the-most serious problems of tho conference. confer-ence. Kvory proposed solution so far Is said to have been blocked by tho uiniiswered question of who Is quail-fled quail-fled to speak for the ltusslan people. v The government ut Omsk, of which the United States nud other governments govern-ments expected much, Is now In the hands of 11 dlctntor und split Into factions. fac-tions. Tim I'lilento nations have not given up hope that tho Omsk nuthorl- ' ties may yet evolve a stnblo form of government for Itussln, hut this bus not been nccompllshed now nnd none ' of the allied governments bus recog- ), nlzed thu Omsk regime officially, uf-thoiigh uf-thoiigh till of them aro dealing with IttiHsluu ronresentutlvos who uro In cioso toucn Willi Admiral Kolchak and I his government. I I'rluco i.voff, who wns premier In I . the KereiiMky cabinet nnd who has de- I' voted most of his life to the develop- . incut of the zomstvo system In Kussla, ','' and Boris Hahkmctlcff, UiisImiii am- I hassador In Wnshlngton, nppolnted iy J Kereiisky, as well ns I'rofessor Haul Mllukorr, Kerensky's minister of for- j elgn ufrulrs, uro on lliclr wny to I'nrlst or already there with other prominent Husslans to do tvhnlover they can t' ; aid the allies In the solution of the' f Husslnn prohlem. Hut whether they represent the people of Uusslu nt till , tlmo Is 11 question which It prlvntcly is. lnlnilltcd'cnn not he nuswered here. , .'- 1 |